2012-04-21

As you may or may not know, an Alberta election is underway. As its
looking like there's a real solid chance that the Wildrose party can
seize the reigns of power away from Alison "Red" Redford and her
"Progressive" "Conservative" Party, I felt this would be a good time to
bring up some of the disastrous legislation enacted by Red Redford's
party.

Today this trip down memory lane takes us to 2012, where the Alberta Government decided they owned the hearts and mind of youth, not their parents. You can read the disgusting legislation here.

One of last things the Red Redford government tried to do before the election was to bring in new rules and changes to homeschooling in this province. As part of their “reorganization”, they tried to exert even more control over the children of this province. In Red Redford’s world, children do not belong to their parents, they belong to the state. When those children are in danger of becoming fully educated and aware citizens, the Redford government and her corrupt Alberta Teachers Association union combine forces to make sure that all that are created are little lumps of progressive clay: uneducated peons fed lies and nonsense, who then grow up convinced that the state (with the power of unions) is the provider of all that is well and good, keeping the world at bay from the greedy capitalists who would seek to destroy us all. If you think this is unrealistic, ask yourself how many high school graduates are ever educated about when the Constitution of Canada was created, or whether we had free speech rights circa 1910. The answer may surprise you.

Homeschooling is something in Canada relatively unique to Alberta. It’s one of those independent Alberta cultural expressions: you know, the kind that Redford is so horribly disgusted and offended by. The notion that you, yes you can teach your children without any input from teachers unions and progressive government busybodies is totally alien to them. You’re merely a member of the public: you haven’t been given bullshit accreditation from that same union that makes sure teachers who play along are never fired, so how on earth can you teach. You haven’t been brought up to speed with idiotic anti-bullying policies or diversity inclusion, so what makes you think that you can get your children able to read or write or do sums. Wait, you actually got them able to do that?

One of the lessons learned by the explosion of homeschooling in the United States is that it works better. It turns out that parents are perfectly able to educate their children: they themselves typically learned how to do everything that is now demanded of children. Indeed, all they haven’t learned is the unnecessary bullshit. Children who are homeschooled learn of the Magna Carta, Shakespeare, subordinate clauses, the US Civil War, trigonometry, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alexander Rutherford, cellular mitosis, algebra, World War II, predicates, Charles Darwin, and endothermic reactions. They don’t, tragically, learn how to “respect one another” or how to put a condom on a banana. They may (or may not) learn how to do a simple weld or how to bake a casserole. These are all achievements that the regular school system seems to have a lot of trouble with.

Teachers don’t like being humiliated like that. Neither do governments. They’ll do anything to stop you from doing the job they cannot.

Red Redford thinks that her overpaid teachers wasting your tax dollars are better than parents at educating children, not just the 3 R’s but the birds and the bees and what their opinion of tax cuts or individual responsibility should be. For those who disagree, or even those who accept that those who do disagree should be permitted to, Danielle Smith is your answer.